Karaoke actors, do you still remember them?
Karaoke actors use to be a part of the lives of people who loves to sing that owns a Laser disk, Betamax, VHS, VCD, and DVD.
By the time Bluray and those Magic Sing portable Karaoke machines existed, they became obsolete. During my childhood in the 90s, I see these actors during my sister’s unwanted VHS Karaoke concerts. When she was singing Do you remember by Phil Collins. There were these two white actors who are likely to be eastern European making their terrible acting. It has a sad ending where the guy died in the end and the woman cried and reminisce about their cheesy happy memories.
Karaoke videos from Vhs songs are song-specific. In the Karaoke video of “Part of your world” Have this East Asian woman in a Mermaid suit swimming in a pool. As cheesy and Corny as these Karaoke videos are, at least they make an effort to make the videos song-specific. I also remember a Karaoke video of Spice Girls Wannabe which is about thirty-year-old teenage girls hanging in a mall.
For Your eyes only is a soundtrack of a James Bond film of the same title so this VHS Karaoke song looks like a low budget James Bond intro:
This one cheesy acting but it captured the soul of the song.Tom Jones’ Delilah is about a man who killed his wife because he caught her cheating.
These videos that are song specific slowly got phased out when the companies that makes them discovered dancing women in skimpy outfits sells more for less effort.
When those Bar Karaoke Machines existed, the videos shown are just random images of beautiful places or just a random KPOP video. Imagine singing Enter the Sandman by Metallica while the video you see is BTS’ tainted love. The moment Magic Sing portable Karaoke Machines exists, All you get are slideshows of random pictures with nothing to do with the song. The Karaoke actors are now a relic of the past but they will always have a place in my heart.
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